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· GACC member customedialabs headed by Manos Sifakis was one of the Winners of The 2008 W3 Awards announced by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. customedialabs, an emerging marketing and communications agency, won two Gold W3 Awards and three Silver in its first year participating in the competition. Receiving over 3,000 entries, The W3 Awards honors outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, and Web Video created by some of the best interactive agencies worldwide. customedialabs was honored with a Gold Award in the category of Best Home Page for the agency’s website as well as a Gold in the Category of Charitable Organizations/Nonprofit for its involvement on the new website of The Museum of Science and Industry Chicago. The agency also took home 3 Silver Awards for the Cephalon Pharmaceuticals Corporate Website, Organic Valley Corporate Website, and Self Promotion for customedialabs. - George Kyrtatas founder of mylittlegreekchef.com was featured in an article by Bob Nicolaidis in the December 2008 issue of Estiator Magazine. The article was entitled “This Chef’s Dream is to Disseminate what is Purely Hellenic: Food.” It describes Gearge’s culinary successes and his book “My Big Fat Greek Feast.” George is currently working on a television show on the same theme.
- Stavros Antonakakis of Yes Business Brokers was elected president of the Cretan Society “Knossos” of the Delaware Valley.
Assad Khoury, and his wife Sofia, opened a new restaurant in Cherry Hill, NJ, specializing in modern and traditional Greek and Mediterranean cuisine. “Kuzina by Sofia” is located in Sawmill Village Shopping Center, 404 Route 70 West, Cherry Hill.
Steve Economou, Managing Director of Curtis Financial Group, LLC will be presenting a workshop session on Fairness Opinions at the 13th Annual Business Lawyers’ Institute on October 17th and 18th, 2007. During his career in investment banking and corporate finance, Mr. Economou has delivered more than 150 valuation and fairness opinions related to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financings, and recapitalizations. The Annual Business Lawyers Institute will be held in Philadelphia and is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Continuing Legal Education Arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Drexel University President Constantine Papadakis, Ph.D., a member of the Greek American Chamber, was honored at the Annual Dinner of the Glogal Interdependance Center (GIC) on July 25, 2007. The event took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia. GIC is a nonprofit organization that encourages the expansion of global dialogue and free trade. The event Chairman was the Dean of Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business, George Tsetsekos, Ph.D., also a member of GACC.
On July 25, 2007, GACC board member, Joanna Savvides participated in a program sponsored by Women International Leaders of Greater Philadelphia (WIL) and co-sponsored by the World Trade Center of Greater Philadelphia. The program was entitled "Cultural Differences in Doing Business in Other Countries."
Peter Thermos, GACC member and President of Palindrome Technologies released his latest book, "Securing VoIP Networks: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures". Co-authored with Ari Takanen, the book provides a broad overview of the security challenges associated with VoIP and Next Generation Networks. Detailed, in-depth technical recommendations are provided to help organizations secure voice and other multi-media connections.
- Jordan D. Yuelys, Esquire of Hackensack, New Jersey has been re-elected to the position of President of the Hellenic American Bar Association of New Jersey. It will be his third year as President. Jordan D. Yuelys, Esquire also served as President in 1996. At that time he had been the youngest President ever elected to the Hellenic American Bar Association of New Jersey.
Curtis Financial Managing Director Steve Economou led a panel discussing "The New World of Valuation" at the MAC Institute on May 24, 2007 at The ACE Center in Lafayette Hill, PA. Mr. Economou is a member of the GACC and sits on the GACC of Greater Philadelphia Advisory Board. Curtis Financial Group, LLC is an investment banking firm with offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh that advises middle market companies on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, raising capital, and provides fairness opinions, business valuations, and related corporate finance advisory services.
On May 16, 2007, Tassos Efstratiades, a partner in the law firm of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel, was one of the presenters at a seminar on "Economic Development Financing in Pennsylvania" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Efstratiades' presentation was on 'Documenting Industrial Development Bond Transactions'.
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